{"id":85045,"date":"2026-02-16T18:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85045"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:40:29","slug":"these-women-didnt-suffer-racial-slurs-in-maternity-care-it-was-something-more-insidious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/16\/these-women-didnt-suffer-racial-slurs-in-maternity-care-it-was-something-more-insidious\/","title":{"rendered":"These women didn&#8217;t suffer racial slurs in maternity care &#8211; it was something more insidious"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1Wqro3.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6&amp;x=521&amp;y=265&amp;s=191&amp;d=191\" alt=\"Tenisha says her pain during childbirth 'wasn't taken seriously' by medics\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was told by the midwife to shut up,&#8221; says Tenisha, &#8220;and then she put her hand over my mouth&#8230; &#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/these-women-didn-t-suffer-racial-slurs-in-maternity-care-it-was-something-more-insidious\/ar-AA1WqfYQ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;cvid=6993634986a842f9bfbfdbb5da2335be&amp;ei=28\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&#8220;I was told by the midwife to shut up,&#8221; says Tenisha, &#8220;and then she put her hand over my mouth&#8230; &#8221; Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/pregnant4.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85046,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85045\/revisions\/85046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}